Etudes en Forme de Variations
By Robert Schumann
Edited by Maurice Hinson
Series: Alfred Masterwork Edition
Category: Piano Collection
Format: Book
Instrument: Piano
Level: Advanced
WoO 80 - C minor - piano
editor: Hoehn, Alfred
composer: Beethoven, Ludwig van
Product Line: Edition Schott - Single Edition
Difficulty: very difficult
Pages: 16
Johannes Brahms’ summer sojourn in 1893 in Bad Ischl was productive. Alongside the pieces op. 118, he also wrote his last cycle of piano pieces, opus 119. The composer wrote to Clara Schumann of the opening work, saying that it was teeming with dissonances and that: “every measure and every note must sound like a ritardando, as if one wanted to suck the melancholy out of each single one, with lust and pleasure out of the aforementioned dissonances!